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In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob Zuber sits down with Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and author of "The Engineering Leader," for a deep dive into career ownership and sustainable engineering leadership. Cate challenges the common misconception that career growth equals promotion, introducing the concept of being the "directly responsible individual" for your own career and the crucial difference between "buying" versus "renting" your skills in the marketplace.

Reliability doesn’t have to be fancy and dramatic. Kolton and his team dramatically improved Netflix reliability by focusing on low-hanging fruit. FULL TRANSCRIPT: My first holiday peak at Netflix, where my VP of engineering came to me and he said, "Kolton, what do you think the chance we make it through the holiday peak without an outage is?"  I thought about it for a minute and I said, "50/50.".

Get a quick walkthrough of the FireHydrant platform. FireHydrant is the all-in-one incident management platform that helps teams resolve incidents up to 90% faster — and prevent them from happening again. From flexible alerting and powerful automation to retros and AI insights, it brings clarity and control to every step of your response.

We’ve teamed up with the Heavy Networking podcast to take you under the hood of Megaport’s resilient, software-driven network. Luke Gollan, Network Automation Engineer at Megaport, joins Heavy Networking hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to unpack what happens when you click “provision” in the Megaport portal.

Learn the fundamentals of Puppet's Control Repository with Margaret and Tony in this comprehensive walkthrough. See how Control Repos serve as your single source of truth for managing configuration across your entire infrastructure, driving collaboration and standardization while simplifying code deployments.

Gremlin’s Reliability Intelligence helps teams uncover the cause behind failure modes so they can move faster and improve reliability without sacrificing velocity. The new Gremlin MCP Server, part of Reliability Intelligence, gives you new ways to explore your data, giving you access to insights and recommendations to improve reliability and better run your systems using Gremlin. In this webinar, Gremlin CTO Sam Rossoff shows you how to integrate your favorite LLM and use plain language to query data, uncover insights, create dynamic dashboards, and more.